Wei-Yi Yang, Karen von Kunes explore Czech music and literature April 1
Wei-Yi Yang, a member of the School of Music faculty, and Karen von Kunes, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, will present “Leoš Janáček & Milan Kundera: a confluence of Czech music and literature” on Monday, April 1. Yang will perform Janáček’s rarely-played piano cycle On an Overgrown Path, written 1900–1912, alongside [...]
Jasper String Quartet returns to Yale for Dec. 11 concert with pianist Wei-Yi Yang
Program features music by Mendelssohn, Ligeti, and Schumann The Oneppo Chamber Music Series at the Yale School of Music presents the Jasper String Quartet on Tuesday, December 11 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. The program will feature string quartets by Mendelssohn and Ligeti, as well as Schumann’s majestic piano quintet with faculty pianist [...]
Actress to bring Dickens characters to life at British Art Center
Award-winning British stage and screen actress Miriam Margolyes will perform her celebrated production of “Dickens’ Women” at the Yale Center for British Art on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at 6 pm. The production features Margolyes portraying 23 of Dickens’ best-loved characters. Acclaimed pianist Wei-Yi Yang will accompany Margolyes on piano with music contemporary to Dickens’ time. [...]
Wei-Yi Yang performs Spanish program Oct. 10
The Yale School of Music opens the 2012—2013 season of the Horowitz Piano Series with a recital by the “untiring, passionate, and poetic” (Classics Today) pianist Wei-Yi Yang on Wednesday, October 10. The centerpiece of the program is Enrique Granados’s masterful Goyescas, a neo-Romantic piano suite inspired by the work of the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Goyescas [...]
Clive Greensmith & Wei-Yi Yang perform Mendelssohn duets Apr. 19
Featuring the historical Erard piano in the Collection of Musical Instruments The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents cellist Clive Greensmith and pianist Wei-Yi Yang in a concert featuring music of Mendelssohn on Thursday, April 19, 2012. The program will take place at 8 pm at the Collection of Musical Instruments (15 Hillhouse Avenue, New [...]
“Poetic” pianist Wei-Yi Yang performs Jan. 25
Recital features music of Ravel and Schubert The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents a recital by the “untiring, passionate, and poetic” (Classics Today) pianist Wei-Yi Yang on Wednesday, January 25. Mr. Yang’s performances have been described by critics as “sensational” (New York Times) and “a joy to behold” (Classics Today). [...]
Pianist Wei-Yi Yang performs in recital November 10
Recital will feature Schubert, Schubert-Liszt Lieder transcriptions, and Chopin’s complete Preludes The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents the “untiring, passionate, and poetic” (Classics Today) Wei-Yi Yang in a recital on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). Mr. Yang is Associate Professor [...]
Pianists Peter Frankl and Wei-Yi Yang pair up in Schumann and Debussy program
Fascinating December 16 concert includes music by Schumann arranged by Debussy, and music by Debussy arranged by Ravel The Horowitz Piano Series at Yale presents Peter Frankl and Wei-Yi Yang, both professors of piano at the Yale School of Music, in a program of piano duets on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 8 pm. The [...]
Pianist Wei-Yi Yang to perform Chopin and Scriabin
The dynamic pianist Wei-Yi Yang, who won over audiences last year with his fiery performance in Messiaen’s Turangalila-Symphonie, will perform a solo recital on Wednesday, October 14 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall (470 College Street, corner of Wall St., New Haven). The program will feature the music of Chopin [...]
Wei-Yi Yang performs Messiaen, Bach, and others on Horowitz Piano Series
The Yale School of Music presents a Horowitz Piano Series recital by pianist Wei-Yi Yang at 8:00 pm on Monday, March 30 in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. Yang, acclaimed by the Dallas Morning News for his “dazzling” performance with the Yale Philharmonia in Messiaen’s Turangalila at Carnegie Hall last December, will play [...]
Memorial concert to honor Jesse Levine
Event will feature spoken tributes and performances by colleagues and students The Yale School of Music presents a memorial concert in honor of Jesse Levine on Sunday, February 22 at 4 pm in Battell Chapel, 300 College Street in New Haven. In addition to spoken tributes and remembrances will be performances by Levine’s former colleagues [...]
Yale in NY offers piano music for four and six hands
Featuring pianists Boris Berman, Claude Frank, Elizabeth Parisot, Wei-Yi Yang The Yale School of Music presents “One and Two Pianos, Four and Six Hands,” a fascinating program of music by Mozart, Schnittke, and Stravinsky, on Wednesday, February 4 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. Eminent pianists from the School of [...]
Turangalîla Symphony
at Carnegie Hall garners rave reviews
The Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale performed Olivier Messiaen’s epic Turangalîla Symphonie at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, December 14, under the baton of guest conductor Reinbert de Leeuw and with Wei-Yi Yang at the piano and Geneviève Grenier at the ondes Martenot to close the Messiaen Centenary Celebration. The critical reception to the [...]
